facebook   twitter   mail  

The Nelson Photo News

 
    Print this article

No 127 : May 29, 1971

59

Record Squash Entries

The Nelson open squash tournament was developed into a major event and this year's was the biggest held in Nelson. Brilliant play was produced in the A grade men's finals with Keith Green, Wellington, beating former Davis Cup tennis player Richard Hawkes, Christchurch, in five games.

×
     

They were too exhausted to raise a smile: Keith Green and Richard Hawkes after the A grade finals which Green won 9-4, 9-2, 4-9, 1-9, 10-9

×
     

Ross Neal, Marlborough, and John Wesney, Nelson, contested in the B grade finals with Neal winning 9-3, 9-0, 6-9, 9-2

×
     

Pam Senior was the only Nelson player to win a title. She won the A grade finals from Beverley Fineran, Christchurch, 10-9, 9-3, 9-6

×
     

A grade finalist Beverley Fineran

×
     

Tournament director John Wesney was as busy off the court as he was on

×
     

Brian Sixtus was another involved with tournament control

×
     

Keith Scoggins, Nelson, competing in the C grade semi-finals. He lost to Neil Henderson of Wellington, 9-1, 10-8, 9-6

    Issue contents

Website © 2011 — Friends of the Nelson Library
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand logo

All images and text on this website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/).